Two stages later, Martin nabbed the yellow jersey.
One of its stars, Tom Boonen, a former green-jersey winner, smacked his head on the road and pulled out of the Tour two stages later.
As the organisers' deliberate attempt to prolong the tension continues, the real high points of the Tour then arrive, starting with Mont Ventoux, France's single most difficult climb, on stage 15 and continuing with an unprecedented double ascent of its most infamous Alpine col, the Alpe d'Huez, three stages later.
Interestingly, Atomico itself doesn't do seed investments but backs companies one or two stages later at Series A and beyond, so the Angel Programme is very different from the angel scout networks typically operated by large VC firms in Silicon Valley that want to build a bridge to seed stage deal-flow.
In the season-ending Manx International Rally, Mouton struggled to start her Quattro and then crashed out five stages later.
Two stages later was perhaps the race's most difficult stage, featuring four major climbs and ending at 2304 m at Tre Cime di Lavaredo.
had two stage wins, first with Wouter Weylandt in a depleted sprint finish to stage 3 in the Netherlands, and two stages later Jérôme Pineau led a winning breakaway across the finish line.
That assertion will take some living down, given that that last season's tournament brought first stage defeat at Milton Keynes for Powell and Co and this season's an exit to Middlesbrough one stage later.
During both of these later two stages, pixels are discarded by both the use of a region of interest around the plaque, and the masks created in the first stage of analysis.
2015: Two seed-stage deals and four later-stage deals (33.3percentt / 66.7percentt).
